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"Inception" Score is Edith Piaf Song In Slow Mo

Hans Zimmer used crazy math and Edith Piaf to create main "Inception" theme.

by Brandon Kim

from: http://www.ifc.com/

"Inception" Score is Edith Piaf Song In Slow Mo

"Inception" Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. 2010

The Edith Piaf song, "Non, je ne Regrette Rien" is used by characters "Inception" like an alarm to wake from dreaming. It's a lovely touch, and one exploited by composer Hans Zimmer in assembling the film's entire score. Here's a handy audio comparison [I saw on Cinematical] to cut straight to the big reveal:

Technically, Zimmer didn't just slow the Piaf song down and call it a day, but extracted bits and then used his electroturdmatics to reconstruct a theme in varying "subdivisions and multiplications of the tempo of the Édith Piaf track," he told Dave Itzkoff writing for Arts Beat. Normally I'd be restraining myself from using foul language to discuss Zimmer's approach to creating film scores, but credit where it's due. I love the idea and the use of Piaf to achieve the encompassing theme. Zimmer is clearly still giddy over the whole thing. "So I could slip into half-time; I could slip into a third of a time," he said, tripping his balls off over the tempo manipulations he employed to great effect. "Anything could go anywhere. At any moment I could drop into a different level of time."

A question remains whether or not he will be eligible for Oscar recognition, given the Academy's strict rules -- is it Hans Zimmer or Edith Piaf we should be awarding? Zimmer first said he only extracted "these two notes out of a recording," but later stated, "I didn't use the song; I only used one note." Perhaps both are true, depending on which level of time he happens to be dropping through. I think he's at least one step ahead of the Academy.

More on "Inception" score.

New Inception Poster is Like a Knight to Remember

Written by Kyle Buchanan

The new poster for Christopher Nolan’s Inception has been released and…hey, it looks a little familiar. The vast, wet cityscape. The figure with his back to us, palming a weapon. The kerning! Yes, the Inception poster may read “From the Director of The Dark Knight” at the bottom, but you’d hardly need a magnifying glass to know that at first glance. Did Leonardo DiCaprio ever tell you how he got those scars?

The full poster, after the jump:

Christopher Nolan’s Inception Teaser Trailer Gets Funky

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com)

Your mind is the scene of a crime. Lucky for us, there is no crime being committed against the art of cinema here, as The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan is finally in the game with a trailer for his new film, Inception. Until today — or this weekend, for those who saw it in theaters — all we knew about Inception was that it was “set inside the architecture of the mind.” Now we know that it includes some sort of a dreidel reference, Leonardo DiCaprio having some wild visions, and two guys fighting in a hallway, Matrix-style.

Where does that leave us? With a continued trust that Christopher Nolan, who before he brought us The Dark Knight gave us films such as Memento and The Prestige, will not lead us astray. He’s a great storyteller who is following the second highest grossing film of all-time with an aggressive science fiction pic. And at this point, it’s impossible to judge this movie based on less than a minute of actual footage. But I will say this: that fight scene in the hallway looks pretty cool.

Inception stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Michael Caine and Cillian Murphy. It is scheduled to hit theaters July 16, 2010. Check out the teaser below, courtesy of Yahoo Movies.